Tag Search: “manufacturing”
Opportunities, risks and realities of India’s participation in global value chains
Despite its manufacturing capability, India, unlike other Asian countries, has failed to integrate into global value chains (GVCs). In this post, Karishma Banga discusses the nature of India’s GVC int...
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Karishma Banga
17 September, 2022
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Changing the frame: Making small firms compete like large ones
Although small firms have natural advantages, they face constraints when it comes to reach and scale; this prevents them from competing with larger firms. Pankaj Chandra shares business models from It...
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Pankaj Chandra
13 September, 2022
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Has the export-oriented manufacturing model reached its sell-by date for India?
As India faces the challenge of creating millions of well-paying jobs for its rapidly growing working-age population, Devashish Mitra analyses which sectors and what strategies can provide these good ...
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Devashish Mitra
12 September, 2022
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The effect of easing labour restrictions: Evidence on employment in Rajasthan
Stringent labour laws in India can hinder firms’ growth and increase the incidence of informal and contract employment. Looking at evidence from firms in Rajasthan after the amendment of the Industria...
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Sarur Chaudhary
Siddharth Sharma
26 August, 2022
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Hindu-Muslim integration and firm output in Indian manufacturing: Evidence from a field experiment
Evidence suggests that ethnic diversity can lower firm output due to poor social ties and taste-based discrimination among workers. Based on an experiment in a manufacturing plant in West Bengal, this...
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Arkadev Ghosh
23 May, 2022
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Automation and inequality
Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take a ...
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Dilip Mookherjee
Pascual Restrepo
04 May, 2022
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Automation and inequality
Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take a ...
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Dilip Mookherjee
Pascual Restrepo
04 May, 2022
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Temperature, labour reallocation, and industrial production
While it is well-established that agricultural production is vulnerable to weather shocks, less is known about how those affected respond or the economic consequences of any responses. Analysing data ...
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Jonathan Colmer
13 April, 2022
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International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
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Viral Acharya
Amartya Lahiri
05 April, 2022
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International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
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Viral Acharya
Amartya Lahiri
05 April, 2022
- Podcasts
Global supply chain disruptions: Causes and the way ahead
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been disastrous for the global supply chains, with persistent effects since early 2020, and knock-on effects now gaining intensity. In this post, Sharmila Kanth...
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Sharmila Kantha
13 December, 2021
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Intellectual property rights and wage inequality
Technology has become central to most everyday activities. But will incentives for technological change – such as those induced by Covid-19 – cause deeper distortions in the global economy, especially...
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Sourav Bhattacharya
Pavel Chakraborty
Chirantan Chatterjee
25 October, 2021
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